It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.