It's Not Music You Would Use To

It Seemed [there Are] Musical Nodes On The Planet Where Cultures Meet And Mix, Sometimes As A Result Of Unfortunate Circumstances, Like Slavery Or Something Else, In Places Like New Orleans And Havana And Brazil. And Those Are Places Where The European Culture And Indigenous Culture And African Culture All Met And Lived Together, And Some New Kind Of Culture And Especially Music Came Out Of That.

It's A Fundamental, Social Attitude That The 1% Supports Symphonies And Operas And Doesn't Support Johnny Learning To Program Hip-hop Beats. When I Put It Like That, It Sounds Like, 'well, Yeah,' But You Start To Think, 'why Not, Though?' What Makes One More Valuable Than Another?

I Like To Combine The Dramatic Emotional Warmth Of Strings With The Grooves And Body Business Of Drums And Bass.

People In Latin America... Love America From Afar And Emulate America In Some Ways But Also Hate A Lot Of Things That America Does To Them.

I Really Enjoy Forgetting. When I First Come To A Place, I Notice All The Little Details. I Notice The Way The Sky Looks. The Color Of White Paper. The Way People Walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I Get Used To The Place And I Don't Notice Those Things Anymore. So Only By Forgetting Can I See The Place Again As It Really Is.