I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

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.