Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.