Music Interviews

Björk: “There is a dramatic change in the air”

Flume: “I’ve started to put life as a priority”

Giorgio Moroder: “I was always interested in the hits”

Grimes: “I want to be the best”

Jeff Mills: “You’re only limited by your imagination”

Lee “Scratch” Perry: “I am that I am”

Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”

Mark Ronson: “I’m very aware of my place in music”

Moby: “I don’t want anything from music”

Noah Goldstein: “I’ve always trusted my taste”

Ólafur Arnalds: “It’s not the end of the journey”

Richie Hawtin: “I’m interested in man and machine”

Sean Momberger: “I’m a part of something big”

Syd: “I’m ready to move forward”

The Chemical Brothers: “That feeling lives with you”

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: “That's the magic of it”

Tricky: “I’m in people’s souls”

Yoann Lemoine: “I’m not there yet”
ACHIEVEMENT
- “I would like to think that someday I will be content enough with myself and feel good enough about myself to think I don’t need to do all that sort of shit and I’ll just go and watch tomatoes grow or something.”Nick CaveMusician
- “What I am looking for in this world is a sense of not feeling alone, and that’s one of the greatest gifts you can give to another person. I hope that my work does that. I hope that when people leave the theater they feel less alone.”Brie LarsonActor
- “The journey is everything! It’s a cliché, but I have really felt it in my own life, in the 25 or 30 years I’ve been in this… The goal is the process, really enjoying the process.”Matt DamonActor
- “I am Valentino. I live in my own world. I love to create clothes, I love beautiful things. If they want to call me an icon, okay, then I am an icon.”ValentinoFashion designer
- “During my career I was blessed to be able to constantly be motivated and constantly be pushing myself, because otherwise I never would have achieved what I did.”Lindsey VonnAthlete
- “After winning an Oscar, there’s an alertness to what you’re thinking or doing or saying. I feel like there’s an aliveness to the experience that wasn’t as attuned previously.”Chiwetel EjioforActor
- “I don’t pander to anybody. I don’t care who it is. I just do the picture I do.”David BaileyPhotographer
- “I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way.”Sheila HetiAuthor
- “From the beginning, I wanted to protect the clothes themselves from fashion, and at the same time protect the woman’s body. I wanted people to keep on wearing my clothes for at least 10 years or more.”Yohji YamamotoFashion designer
- “We’re going after it. We’re going after what we believe and what we deserve and we’re not taking the back seat anymore. I see an improvement in the way that we as women are standing together and paving the way for the next generations. It’s time for that.”Alicia KeysMusician
- “We have such a short time on this earth, and when you give that opportunity to somebody younger, and they pass it on to the next generation… That’s real success.”Dominique CrennChef
- “I discovered early on that I’m the kind of person that experiments and makes mistakes but then it’s all worth it because once in a blue moon it hits home.”BjörkMusician
- “I think at a certain point, you arrive to a kind of maturity that allows you to swim more freely. And when you touch that state, playing with your unconscious, it's very beautiful when you when you experience that moment.”Ludovico EinaudiMusician
- “I do not consider architecture as art, nor do I consider architects to be artists. However, I do have a strong desire to improve the purity of my expression and put a strong message into my architecture so that I can call it art!”Tadao AndoArchitect
- “Art is about finding creativity in the normal gutter next to you. To see the potential in something where there is no potential in terms of how society sees it is often where art or creativity is a great tool. It’s about making the impossible possible.”Olafur EliassonArtist
- “I’m surviving. I do everything I can to speak out and make sure that I keep my humanity.”Ai WeiweiArtist
- “I think I will stop working when I am finally satisfied… And I cannot see that in the foreseeable future. The urge to do better and even better than that is what pushes me forward.”Giorgio ArmaniFashion designer
- “I think the mark of a great song, photo or a painting is something you can remember. It’s kind of that simple. If you work at it, there will be times when the intangible becomes tangible and for a moment… You are a wizard.”Bryan AdamsMusician
- “It's important for a novelist to use the imagination like a musician, a composer or a painter would, in a kind of non-logical way. I think it’s very important for me to not just become a kind of intellectual writer.”Kazuo IshiguroAuthor
- “The bottom line in the end is to grab the heart of the audience and talk to them directly and tell them: "I share with you my soul and my heart."”Arturo SandovalMusician
- “If it sounds right, then I’m happy, no matter how I got there. I just want to make beautiful music.”Nils FrahmMusician
- “We are consumed with existence, mortgages, jobs, cars, houses. It is nice to allow the imagination room to breathe again and see life as something that is spectacular and magic.”Colin FarrellActor
- “It’s still astounding to me that I have one Oscar, let alone two. Especially because it’s by-product of something that you love so much, it feels like that’s already the gift, that’s already the award.”Hilary SwankActor
- “There's going to be a moment where your work challenges you, where you’re at your limit… But if that deep love is really there, you're not going to abandon it. You are going to give your all to it!”Ari WegnerCinematographer
- “I just try to live my life and just be who I am. If people really accept me they have to accept me as I am, you know what I mean? My highs and my lows and my vulnerabilities… It's who I am as a human being.”Mike TysonAthlete
- “Art is something that you do – you can't not do it. If I made money doing it, I would do it; if I didn't make any money, I would do it.”Julian SchnabelArtist
- “when we finally put a piece together for the first time, seeing it all together, when it actually works… The excitement in the room is something I’ll never forget. It feels like a very powerful moment to be part of.”Crystal PiteChoreographer
- “Although sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don’t want to just retire. No, I enjoy it all and you just keep going until the day comes when you can’t do it anymore.”Anthony HopkinsActor
- “I’ve been very fortunate, and I don’t know why, but my shoes don’t have a special time period. I don’t design them with that in mind but it happens: timelessness. I have been absolutely gifted by that.”Manolo BlahnikShoe designer
- “Happiness for me is just being; just being at any given moment. If you are searching for happiness, you are not happy. It’s the pot at the end of the rainbow.”Benedict CumberbatchActor
- “I think all the roles of my career have presented me with opportunities for my own personal growth. Roles that really push you out of your comfort zone, it really helps you to grow, and it then brings you greater capacity for love within yourself and love for others.”Demi MooreActor
- “To fight this game alone is actually every day a struggle. Sometimes you are not in the best shape. The biggest thing is that you must find in it a personal happiness.”Ana RošChef
- “There’s only one of you in the world. No one else is like you and that's a superpower.”Noomi RapaceActor
- “If I should be fortunate enough to make another film, it would be exactly what I have settled upon as what is right for me. I feel that these days, I understand a little more what the cinema is.”Francis Ford CoppolaFilm director
- “Filmmaking is never anything less than a beautiful gift. I've been doing this forever, and as hard as it may be, it's never let me down. I have such a will to make these movies!”Abel FerraraFilm director
- “I believe anyway that the prime-time for every work of art exists in the time in which it was done. After that it’s transformation, continuous transformation.”ChristoArtist
- “The game of basketball means everything. This is love. Definitely love. I had to practice and I had to make sacrifices, but basketball has given me so much.”LeBron JamesAthlete
- “I consider myself a storyteller. I feel that is what good directors do, they are really just following criteria: is this a good story? Is this the story I want to tell? All we’re trying to do is the hard task of making interesting, thought-provoking films.”Spike LeeFilm director
- “Architecture is something that you should be inside and absorbed by. It’s something which convinces you by experience more than impresses you by image.”David ChipperfieldArchitect
- “I’ve learned not to look at sales reports. I used to, but if I had listened to sales reports at the beginning, I would have given up on things that are some of our biggest successes now.”Rick OwensFashion designer