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

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.