The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary