If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.