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

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.