Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.