It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

Old people go to the polls because they can't get erections, young people stay home, do drugs and have sex.

The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.