I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

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.

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

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

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