Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.