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

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.