Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.