My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

I wish you luck with a capital F.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.