The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching..

You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are a….

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around t….

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up….

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes..

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some m….

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emoti….

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talki….

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source ….

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive..

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters t….

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me..

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good,….

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future..

When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and p….

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

Every collaboration helps you grow..

Law is always better than war..

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

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