Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.