"I think I’m destined to spend the rest of my life screaming from every rooftop that Melodrama is the best album of all time. Lyrically, Lorde is fearless, and every song explores the dark-ass depths of a breakup and the ensuing back-and-forth of feeling everything in extremes. She’s nostalgic, furious, desperate, disoriented, and curious about what the future could look like. Every time I listen to the record, I feel so excited about what pop music might be like in the next decade."

"Alphaville is the New Wave grandfather of Blade Runner: a film that is at once in the past and far in the future. I’m a big Godard fan, and this is one of his great genre deconstructions: effortlessly cool and serious at the same time. Alphaville was my fourth Godard, and I saw it when I was nineteen. He’d already dismantled my mind with Pierrot le fou, Breathless, and Le petit soldat. I wish I could see those Godard films for the first time again."