Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Think inside the work - outside the work

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.