100 Quotes by Flying Lotus

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

I go through phases when I'm super into my anime stuff.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.

Whenever I am making stuff, I got a thing in the back of my mind: 'Oh, this would be so perfect for' whoever.

It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.

I need to help people to create the best work that they can. It's just something a producer should do anyway.

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.