Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

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

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.