Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.
Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
I was given a lot of homework: I had to practise ironing as a synth, practise washing up as a synth, cooking a meal as a synth. It's definitely the most prep I've had to do for a role.
I take sounds and change them into words.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge.
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
