Quotes from Stanley Donwood

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.