People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.