I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

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

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it