Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

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.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

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