The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.
I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.
We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.
If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.
If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls and jasper gates somewhere out of knowledge and space and prefer to die and to trust the unfaltering laws of nature - if, in plain words I don't want to go to heaven, whose business is it but my own?