When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

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

In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.