Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

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.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.