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

I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

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

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.