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

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.