I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me.

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

There's always gonna be people saying they were so much better back in the day.

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

I'd always loved hip-hop.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

I always say that if she treats her kids half as good as she treats the dogs, they'll be in great shape.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.