I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.