The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.