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

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!