Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

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.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.