Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for 'Watch The Throne'.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.

I'm always working on new music.

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space