Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

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

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.