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.

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

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.

You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

I have never been much of a painter.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.