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.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

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.

Let peace and beauty reign.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].