Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

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.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

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

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.