DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

In Dark Places, May we Never be truly Alone.....~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books

A purpose is more like a positive daily-grind, with gratitude and a smile.

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.