I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.