The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

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

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

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.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.