Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. "Okay, this is what they're up to now; this is what they're doing; who's working with them?

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.