Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.