Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

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.

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.