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

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

I love good, loud speakers.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.