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

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

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.

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.