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

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.

I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

My shows are not narratives.