Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal
What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been through an extra filter, another consciousness, in the guise of the translator. Some of my favorite writers who have written in English were doing so without English being their first language, so there's a sense of distance or of distortion there, too. Conrad. Nabokov. These writers were employing English in interesting ways.
Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.