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

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn't expected or predicted by what I supplied. Once phase two begins everything is okay, because then the work starts to dictate its own terms. It starts to get an identity which demands certain future moves. But during the first phase you often find that you come to a full stop.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.