I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.

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.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

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.

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.