For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.