Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

American television really is pathetic.

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

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.