"If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do."

“No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.”

Source : Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

“For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.”

“Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity. Shrink from them and your life will be small, feel the fear and run to them anyway, and you life will be big. Life's just too short to play little.”

“At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.”

“I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.”

“There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.”

“I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

“Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.”