Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.