Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps o….

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated..

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great..

Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of lit….

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, ….

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being..

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason..

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences..

Everybody is entertained to death..

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should ….

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important..

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me..

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it..

People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming….

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones..

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience..

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list..

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform t….

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now..

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be n….

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences..