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.

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

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

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

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.