I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.