It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.