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.

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.