I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

The story in America was a vibrant, bottoms-up democracy subverted by corporations and financial speculators. Those people now control much of the narrative. They also control the congressmen and the legislation that's passed in Washington. So we felt that America had become a corporate state and soft regime change was necessary. That was the concept that got us excited. Then we started thinking about ways to spark it.

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

There's some idea there, and the power of it comes from the fact that most of the time you'll never be able to answer what it is. It's just there. It's just a magic moment that you can feel in your gut that it's there, and you're willing to go there and sleep there and go through the hardship and fight for it. Once you start answering it too clearly then the magic is gone.