I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

Everybody is entertained to death.

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.