If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.