It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.
I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.
If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.
People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.
We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.
I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.
The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.
It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.
Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.
I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.
If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.
On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.
I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.
I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.
