I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.

The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.