It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.

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 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.

With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.

It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.