Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.