I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

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.

Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.