I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

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

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.