The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.