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

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

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.