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John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife. - Oneohtrix Point Never

There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the right reclamation projects, that we're not overcorrecting. Actually, we have no idea where we're going. It's this Tower of Babel type scenario. - Oneohtrix Point Never

The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces music. I don't have a theoretical language for music. I have this abstract dream language. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That's always been the OPN vibe. I think of it as mostly a felt thing, and a koan of feeling that is shared between me and OPN fans. We know what it is when it gets there. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I'm not much of a crier, actually. You know, I tend to cry and get sappy on planes. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn't a bad kid, and I definitely wasn't aggressive, but I was a sad kid. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I'm super into dudes like Megazord, Jon Rafman, Rasmus Emanuel Svensson, Tabor Robak, and Michael Willis to name a few. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack the code of technology and bring forth a future techno utopia. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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. - Oneohtrix Point Never

Yeah, I guess generally I don't want things ever to be easy. While there's some danger of doing something that loses your personal stamp on things, I'd rather take the chance of doing that and do something slightly uncomfortable or hard for myself. - Oneohtrix Point Never

The thing that I've always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It's a complete embrace of something, but I've never been able to say, 'I believe in this.' The only thing I believe in is that I'm in this perpetual state of disbelief. - Oneohtrix Point Never

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I was born in '82 and there were these bizarre wars, explained through mass media in ways that made no sense. I remember watching the Gulf War through night vision. That was sold and propagated as a showbusiness moment for the news. - Oneohtrix Point Never

When I make music I try to be as honest as I can to how I experience the world. Like how you arrange a piece of music formally. I tend to observe a lot of chaos or whatever, the fragmentation and melancholy. That's the filter I synthesize my world view with. If I didn't formally have that chaos and it was really linear, it would make my skin crawl. - Oneohtrix Point Never

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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. - Oneohtrix Point Never

I love Ableton's vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end. - Oneohtrix Point Never

Film work can be anything from just really hard and stressful and you're subjected to really weird deadlines to really draconian and weird and disconnected. You're working in service of the thing, and that can be really amazing for everyone involved, or be kind of just a waste of time. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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. - Oneohtrix Point Never

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