I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

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.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.