Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

Be knowledgeable, but not realistic!

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.

Home is a fairy tale, the kind where children are lost in the woods, found, cooked and eaten.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?