Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.