Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

"Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life."

"I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me."

"There would not be Skaters or Emeralds or any of these bands if it weren't for Double Leopards."

"I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock."

"I really love Glasgow. It reminds me of Boston in parts."

"I love Ableton's vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end."

"I had it calcified inside me that that was the ultimate state of composing. Being Brian Wilson. Being simultaneously a genius and sort of lost at sea - not really knowing what you're doing but reaching for the stars."

"I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and poetry, a sort of athleticism, of controlling your voice."

"To me, 'Garden of Delete' is a way of describing the idea that good things can bloom out of a negative situation. All the traumatic experiences I had during puberty, ugly memories and ugly thoughts in general can yield something good, like a record or whatever."

"I'm so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn't be linked."

"For so many people, it's very hard to feel okay with success, because success is not cool. It supposedly tarnishes your thing; it ruins little pockets of scenes and the self-importance that comes from thinking you're the only people in your town that are doing something."

"I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores."

"I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories."

"I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there."

"I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film."

"I'm basically like a dad; I've always been a dad."

"That's a problem I have a lot of the time with humor in music, where it just kind of stops at the obvious level of: 'Hey, isn't it something that's in bad taste?'"

"My friend and I were in a band together and we used to always refer it it as 'floor-core,' meaning that we would sit on the floor and play stuff."

"It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound."

"I'm not a scientist."

"I'm super into dudes like Megazord, Jon Rafman, Rasmus Emanuel Svensson, Tabor Robak, and Michael Willis to name a few."

"OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music."

"Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music."

"Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music."

"Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,' the museum scene. Him just spray-painting the Mona Lisa, and whatever, with his goons."

"The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it."

"All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude."

"Yeah it would be really cool to disappear. Like Jack Nicholson in 'The Passenger.' Isn't that the final frontier? Being able to erase everything everyone knows about you and just be a stranger has become extremely seductive."

"The promotional cycle's this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone's either gonna steal the album or copy it?"

"Kitsch is very important to me."