If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

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