"Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms."

"People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask."

"So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame."

"Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?"

"When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, a mirror reflecting our own human biases, so we must tread carefully into the future."