I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

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