I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.