You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.

Sleep is crucial and I tend to find when the sun is shining I find it much more difficult to get that sense of sleep.

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.