You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.