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

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

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

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

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.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.