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When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.