A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start

I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.