I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
'Sugarcoat the Galaxy' is inspired by color-inflected photographs of galaxies. It likens sounds to spun sugar and confection, wrapping static harmonies inside energy and pace.
Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you.
I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
'Superunknown,' maybe more than most albums, didn't reveal itself to be what it was until the very end - literally until we were three quarters of the way through mixing it.
Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.
The Sadies have the ability to create soundscapes, and to put you in places.
Music emotionally and psychologically transports you immediately.
Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.
I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.
When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds.
We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.
Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment.
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.
Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.
