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It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology.

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

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.