The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?