Flying Lotus

“I love Snoop - I grew up with his music - but I never thought for a second that we'd work together.”

“I'm just a fan of art and culture.”

“I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.”

“I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.”

“George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.”

“I had a little Walkman, the worst Walkman ever. It was the yellow one, that underwater Walkman. Like you need to take a Walkman under water.”

“I wouldn't want to get involved with a game that's a stinker - I can smell one of those a mile away.”

“'Cosmogramma' is basically the studies that map out the universe and the relations of heaven and hell.”

“Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things just from my ears. It takes forever. Now I can get where I want much quicker.”

“I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.”

“Whenever it gets a little cold in L.A., it gives me an excuse to light my fireplace. You could stare at that joint for, like, a cool two hours. It's entrancing.”

“I had the whole 'Ghostbusters' toy set with the firehouse and the car and everything. Sometimes I'd use my grandpa's camera and make little stop-motion cartoons with those toys - I was definitely a weird kid.”

“I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like, 'Oh my God, they're gonna think I'm not even gonna be able to sit at the table.' But I've come to see that a lot of these musicians don't know how to read music either, and that made me feel good.”

“I built computers and stuff when I was a teenager and whatever.”

“I first was introduced to really, I guess, underground electronic music when I was in middle school.”

“I don't have a great story, but I love Boards of Canada. I didn't get into it when it was happening; I got into it later on.”

“If I work with Bjork, then I'll be a happy soul, man.”

“The producer role attracts introverts. Making music on your computer is so appealing to someone who just sits in their room all day.”

“I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked so that it's in the best condition it's actually ever been in. That is my baby.”

“I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.”