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We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.