Quotes from Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

When we come on stage as robots, it's really powerful.

I think people are really more excited to see the robots than they would be to see ourselves.

No, we never work with robots.

It's funny, we appear as robots from another world, but what we do, what the robots create, is really human after all.

Any time an English band came to Paris we went to the concert. All the French crowds were really bad and really blase. We were the only ones wanting to have fun.

We are huge Bach fans, and huge Glenn Gould fans.

We consciously tend to listen to stuff that is further than what we do. We listen to Bach.

The first song we ever performed, actually, was an instrumental, which says a lot about how shy we are.

We're not performers, we're not models - it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features, but the robots are exciting to people.

We've been able to create those personalities that are not anonymous that can somehow support exposure but in a fictional way.

We say that we are the guinea pigs of our experiment, we are doing things on ourselves, and if the audience can enjoy it as much as we do then that's great. If they don't, that's not a big deal.

Since we began Daft Punk we go from surprise to surprise.

We like to keep things as a surprise. It's always better like that.

I was too shy to be confronted by any kind of audience.

We didn't understand why it should be obligatory to be on the covers of magazines as yourself when you are making music and are not a showman.

It's true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones and the Beatles and how they listened to Muddy Waters and people like that when they were starting out, who are much less well known now than the Rolling Stones. The Stones really changed blues.

Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.

Whether it's making music or directing a video, whatever we do we do it quickly.

The 'Discovery' album was quite a successful record but we didn't tour after that.

If you respect the audience and on stage you put on a disguise, that is part of the show.

All the music we've done with Daft Punk has got a wider, more diverse style; it has rock in it but it's really full of special electronic beats... It's not just rock so the music is different.

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

It still amazes me that everyone is so crazy about what we are doing. Maybe I am just dreaming but people seem to really freak out at what we are doing. I don't know why.