Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires h….

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..

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

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like so….

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

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we hav….

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obviou….

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control..

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

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to tho….

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , hei….

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future..

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….

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constr….

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity..

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer..

I believe in singing..

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre..

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming..

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well..

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach..