Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

“Looking at robots is not like looking at an idol. It's not a human being, so it's more like a mirror - the energy people send to the stage bounces back and everybody has a good time together rather than focusing on us.”

“I loved 'Midnight Express' and how 'Chase' had this dark urge to it, like the 'Scarface' theme tune.”

“All the music we've done with Daft Punk has got a wider, more diverse style; it has rock in it but it's really full of special electronic beats... It's not just rock so the music is different.”

“Every album we've done is tightly linked with our lives.”

“I don't know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM.”

“I think people are really more excited to see the robots than they would be to see ourselves.”

“I was too shy to be confronted by any kind of audience.”

“The big difference with 'Random Access Memories' and maybe 'Tron' is that we decided to share the experience of making music with a bigger team.”

“It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.”

“What's odd is that Romanthony and Todd Edwards are not big in the United States at all. Their music had a big effect on us.”

“I don't listen to electronic music at home.”

“You feel it's not real when people are, like, petting your back all the time.”

“We didn't understand why it should be obligatory to be on the covers of magazines as yourself when you are making music and are not a showman.”

“We say that we are the guinea pigs of our experiment, we are doing things on ourselves, and if the audience can enjoy it as much as we do then that's great. If they don't, that's not a big deal.”

“We like to keep things as a surprise. It's always better like that.”

“Music is the core of what we are trying to do, and we try to find many other ideas around it.”

“In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers - like with hip-hop, in France, the focus is more on the personality, of the flow of the music, rather than the lyrics themselves.”

“I don't know if robots have personalities, but I think maybe we are special robots that are maybe human after all. We try to be a little bit human. Maybe we've managed to put a little bit of emotion.”

“We're always looking for ground where we can experiment, where we can do something that's relevant but that hasn't been done before. Can it be in recorded music? Can it be in the field of a tour? These can take any kind of forms.”

“It still amazes me that everyone is so crazy about what we are doing. Maybe I am just dreaming but people seem to really freak out at what we are doing. I don't know why.”