Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.