It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

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.

I only believed in three things: my right fist, my left fist, and my gut.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

I'm not a homosexual and I don't smoke pot, so what would I say?

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.