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

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!

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.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

It began with a hello, and ended in hell.

Love shouldn't be dictated

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.