Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.

I don't want to rewrite history.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

I rarely assess live shows after I play them.