I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

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.

American television really is pathetic.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.