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

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.