"If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it."

"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas."

"It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?"

"I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."

"To conquer fear is to realize that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."