One of the main things that differentiates them [artists of 70s] from artists before is that they made albums based on the fact that they didn't care about the band as a thing in its own right. They cared about manipulating the recording and that became the album.

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

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.

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.

The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say "Well the album is everything we need. Thanks band. You can go away now."

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