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

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'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.