Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

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

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

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.

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.