You're only as good as your record collection.

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.

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!