The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

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.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

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