It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

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.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

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

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.