Quotes from Porter Robinson

Star Wars Galaxies' didn't ever explain itself to you. It was horribly broken; it was glitchy in several significant ways. It was just this vast, expansive, beautiful universe with all these crazy idiosyncrasies.

For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.

I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.

I'm not a huge movie buff and I don't watch that much television, but I've spent most of my life playing video games of one kind or another.

I wanted to have a grander vision, something that I felt like I was really fighting for and I wanted to have a real idea and be authentic.

I think it's important to form a connection with an audience to a point, but I also feel like there's an instructive element to what you're doing. And I think it's necessary to challenge people.

I was still on track to go UNC at Chapel Hill, I had no plans to be a musician. It wasn't even a goal of mine. Then I had this song that blew up and went viral and suddenly I found myself playing shows and having this music career.

Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.

Virtual Self' combines a lot of unlike elements - trance, jungle, slowed-down breakbeats.

It was more than enough, but I'm completely satisfied that 'Virtual Self' got nominated for the Grammy. That is a complete victory for the project in my mind and anything else is just bonus.

I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.