Oneohtrix Point Never

“My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.”

“The films of Gregg Araki may not be classified as horror, but they have been known to horrify viewers.”

“I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.”

“I'm like soft Ray Manzarek. I think of the keyboard as almost like a bass or a lead.”

“When people talk about how parameters can generate really good work, there's no better example than working within a genre in film. That's like the ultimate parameter.”

“I would love to perform in an Amangiri hotel somewhere. Just off to the side like a piano man, while people drink and eat.”

“To me everything is a material, and everything is subject to change. When I work with found sounds, I'm trying to figure out how do I make this come from me?”

“Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it - just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don't.”

“I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That's always been the OPN vibe. I think of it as mostly a felt thing, and a koan of feeling that is shared between me and OPN fans. We know what it is when it gets there.”

“If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.”

“All of those 10cc 'Not in Love'-type synthetic choir sounds on 'Replica' are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.”

“The promotional cycle's this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone's either gonna steal the album or copy it?”

“That's a problem I have a lot of the time with humor in music, where it just kind of stops at the obvious level of: 'Hey, isn't it something that's in bad taste?'”

“I'm not a scientist.”

“It's stupid and embarrassing that you can describe something to one person and not to another. Until I've solved that problem I'm not going to feel like I've achieved too much.”

“I knew my whole life that I had to make ends meet or I would be ashamed of myself. I had a lot of pressure from my parents. So that's where my vision comes from. It's not to be a great artist, it's always to be like, 'Dad, look, I didn't let you down.'”

“All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.”

“I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack the code of technology and bring forth a future techno utopia.”

“I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.”

“I love Ableton's vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end.”