The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.