I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.