Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

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

My shows are not narratives.

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.

I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.