James Blake

It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin?