We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

You never know whether something will be good.

I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.

Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.