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

Repetition doesn't really exist

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

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.