It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.