Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

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.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.