At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

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

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement