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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
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"I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine."

"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."

"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."

"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."

"I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them."
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"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."

"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."

"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."

"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."

"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."

"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."

"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
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