Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

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.

Health, wealth, happiness, live long and always prosper, have families and also friends, let them be lasting in me forever.

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

Big feature films are another world.

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.