I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people.

It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.