Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

American television really is pathetic.

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.