I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.