The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

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

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.