People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

My shows are not narratives.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.