Om: Does it have something to do with our ability to learn and create easily, thanks to the Internet?
Perry: It’s getting cheaper to make things. It’s getting cheaper, or free, to learn how to do things. It’s getting cheaper to distribute things and share them with people and get yourself out of that creative vacuum. Even if some kid out there in the middle of nowhere creates something, she can share it on the web with people, and get that feedback so she doesn’t feel like: “I’m just doing this and nobody can tell me what’s going on.”
You can do a lot of art and creative projects in digital form. To make an album now, it probably costs 10 times less than it did 20 years ago. Even film being crazy expensive, is still coming down in cost. And now, hopefully, we’re helping build the pieces that help the funding of it and building the community around that as well. That is an explosion point.