The Quarantine Tapes

“My dream is that we think about the right to vote and to participate in this democracy as a core part of personhood, of membership in this community that we call The United States of America. Rather than looking for ways to exclude people and carve them out of the franchise, which we have done time and time again in our history, that we look to include people and understand that everyone needs to have a voice for this system to have legitimacy and for our elected officials to be accountable to all of us.”

“I want to live in a world where people aren't afraid to pay attribution and to say where their inspirations come from and to pay people for their ideas. I think it’s actually quite possible, but it takes a shift in mindset.”

“What was happening twenty, thirty, forty years ago--it seems like if you don’t know your history, you tend to repeat it again. Some of the things that were happening then are happening now, except I think people are becoming more conscious and aware of how important it is to know the things that are around their history and the social conditionings.”

“Synthesizers create such a range of sound and sound that you can treat almost like these very fine-tuned surgical tools when you’re exploring your own consciousness.”

"I think, in a way, it’s really the role of a writer to find the people that nobody knows...and to speak directly to those people.”

“For the most part, the Federal Reserve being able to electronically create money that effectively then goes through the largest bank in the country--the idea of that is to incentivize them to lend it out to the actual people in the country and to therefore help the economy, because individuals and small businesses and so forth will be able to get loans from their banks. The banks get that money from the Federal Reserve and the idea is that makes things work well.”

“I think there’s an almost universal experience of loss that is devastating to many of the people who have lost not only their connection to the friends they no longer see and the places they no longer go, but to their sense of stability and security in the world.”

“In a divisive country, in a country [where] there are so many voices trying to divide us, we have so much in common with so many people.”

“Nothing inspires an artist like limitation.”

“How we respond and how we react and how we get prepared and stop trying to master and control a phenomenon that you never will, but rather our response to it is the wake-up call and the message.”