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

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.

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.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.

The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.