I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.