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 know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

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.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.