Donald Fagen

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.