In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you go into it, you're aware that you're doing it for the right reasons - and you have your own moral and ethical code. And we weren't driven by money, but by a a desire to make music and make a statement.

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.