When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Think inside the work - outside the work

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.