When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.