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

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.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

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.

I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

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.