"The whole reason I've spent my entire life playing music is (a) I love music but (b) I want people to hear it. I hate the idea of creating culture in a vacuum. Being involved in the hardcore punk scene in the late '80s and being involved in the underground dance scene, I realized there was a lot of wonderful music being made that no one ever heard. And that just seemed like such a waste -- especially when there's so much terrible music that everybody hears. Why not try and make wonderful music and present it in such a way that people will actually hear it?"