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.

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.

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

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.