When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

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

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.