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.

I love good, loud speakers.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

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

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.