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

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns, not to do the thing that normally happens in a working situation where everyone homogenizes and concedes certain points - so eventually they're all playing in roughly the same style. I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away. So there would be a kind of space in the middle where I could operate, and attempt to make these things coalesce in some way. In fact quite a lot of my stuff has arisen from that.