More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

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

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.