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

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

We also worked with Marshall Jefferson for Groovy, Laidback and Nasty. So we were lucky to work with some really great people.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

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

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.

We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using collage and sound in a digital way. MTV, a couple of years later would be that way.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward