Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.

Being an artist is a job for life.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

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

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.