I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of a thing where, unless you're active in the hardcore community, what could you have to say of value about it? It resists criticism because it's not just a style but an entrance into several different worlds of ideas- political, philosophical, societal. The music is really only part of the whole scene. In that sense, the music doesn't change much because it shouldn't: It needs to be there as a signal that you're entering into a certain discursive mode, maybe.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.