Eric Garcetti Quotes

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'

I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music.

I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy.

It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.

I am very fond of western genres, including EDM.

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.

My heart is always listening to the music I grew up with from the '70s and '80s to early '90s.

The Juan McLean is great.

The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

I like Scissor Sisters.

I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.