“Hopefully I’m leaving people with more questions than answers.”

“Coming from hardcore punk rock I really believed in simplicity. I thought things were more interesting the simpler they were.”

SXSW is not a festival, it’s a conference.

“I didn’t want to say something overt. I didn’t know how to.”

The genesis of underground Chinese music, 1986-1999

“I sort of deduced from the fact that the car wasn’t in the driveway when I woke up that I must have written a song.”

“This album is so strong and unsettling because our groups were comfortable with being vulnerable.”

“This world is coming to infect your body and destroy the planet you live on and control your movements, and there’s precisely jack shit you can do about it.”

“Magic and music were powerful tools for transformation.”