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

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

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.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

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.

Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.