Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

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

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.