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

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.

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.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Don't use your film for ugly purpose.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.