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.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.