You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

You reach into cyberspace and you grab some cyber stuff, build it up, and the computer will give you a 360 of it.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.