I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.

For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

Body odor is the window to the soul.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.