Art is all in the details.
'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.
Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.