It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

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

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

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.