I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.