I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.