Musician

It was more than enough, but I'm completely satisfied that 'Virtual Self' got nominated for the Grammy. That is a complete victory for the project in my mind and anything else is just bonus.

I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.

So, the concept was a single-stage festival, and I open and close the festival to encourage people to stay for all of the other artists.

Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity.

I've got a hundred thousand things on my mind that are taking precedence over trying to make pop collaborations.

I'm not a huge movie buff and I don't watch that much television, but I've spent most of my life playing video games of one kind or another.

When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM scene and tweet a lot.

Star Wars Galaxies' didn't ever explain itself to you. It was horribly broken; it was glitchy in several significant ways. It was just this vast, expansive, beautiful universe with all these crazy idiosyncrasies.

My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other.

I think it's important to form a connection with an audience to a point, but I also feel like there's an instructive element to what you're doing. And I think it's necessary to challenge people.

If an artist I liked disowned songs that meant a lot to me, I would be pretty hurt by that.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

I was trying to write new music, but there was nothing I was reacting against. It turned out 'Worlds' itself became something for me to to resist.

There's a really high emphasis on having good taste in my household and having nuanced opinions. We're always critically analyzing stuff.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

It might be interesting to people to say that I would do something with Taylor Swift, but the reality is, it's so not on my list of things to do.

I still play the songs I declared noncanonical.

I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.

I'm so grateful for archives like Wayback Machine, who for 15 years have been creating snapshots of almost the entire web.

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.