Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns, not to do the thing that normally happens in a working situation where everyone homogenizes and concedes certain points - so eventually they're all playing in roughly the same style. I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away. So there would be a kind of space in the middle where I could operate, and attempt to make these things coalesce in some way. In fact quite a lot of my stuff has arisen from that.