The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can..

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that pro….

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit….

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references a….

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds..

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person..

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!.

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Wher….

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in or….

In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's ….

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them..

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular..

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking..

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I d….

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity..

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before..

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention..

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of b….

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effective….

Genius is individual, scenius is communal..