The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.