As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Law is always better than war.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.