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With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

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.

The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

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

Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.