I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.

I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.

I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.

Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.

People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.

I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.

In a lifetime, you can say, yes, you have instances of pleasure, of happiness, you like some of your work, but your work is the entire story, and if you are not satisfied with a few moments of a few parts of that story, you would like to be able to adjust that.

Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts. I'm excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect.