Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

I don't do live things.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.