David Bowie June 2002 NY times

"The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within ten years and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that its not going to happen. I'm fuly confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in ten years, and authordship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing. Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring beause that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. It's terribly exciting. But on the other hand it doesn't matter if you think it's exciting or not; it's what's going to happen...