Sonic Diversity Quotes

I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'

Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

I don't try to make one thing. I really try to experiment, even if its just the vocals or the beat. I can't really describe my sound.