I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

We also worked with Marshall Jefferson for Groovy, Laidback and Nasty. So we were lucky to work with some really great people.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.

We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using collage and sound in a digital way. MTV, a couple of years later would be that way.

I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

My hope is to see Tom Cruise jumping on my couch.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"