Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.