Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That's occasionally what happens. What more often happens is that we settle on some sort of - a few sort of structural ideas, like, "Okay, when I put my finger up, we're all going to move to the extremes of our instruments. So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we're going to stay there until I take my finger down.

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.