All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.

It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I'm a little nervous. Definitely. Especially coming from an album like Biophilia, which was about the universe. This is more of a traditional singer/songwriter thing. When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there's nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that's 45 minutes. You had A-side songs and B-side songs; I always loved the first song on side B. And there's nothing wrong with that. Prog albums of the 70s adapted to that format very much. But not all musicians want to create 45 minutes of music that has to be listened to in chronological order.