In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it.

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situati….

You can't really imagine music without technology..

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America..

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind..

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity..

I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll ma….

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental ac….

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated..

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip..

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of..

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point..

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studio….

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is somet….

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there….

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf..

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense..

When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished..

Listening to something is an act of surrender..

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions..