Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.