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.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.