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

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

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

I take sounds and change them into words.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.