The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.