"Architecture theory is very interesting."

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

"I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down."

"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."

"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."

"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone."

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."

"I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues."