I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring..

Law is always better than war..

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another..

The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quit….

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither..

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Ge….

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do..

Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality….

Every collaboration helps you grow..

Painting, I think it's like jazz..

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist..

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn'….

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together..

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music..

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism..

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth..

There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, an….

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records..

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition..

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten..