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

One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns, not to do the thing that ….

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….

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them..

Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it ….

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one..

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface..

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others..

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet..

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium..

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the ….

Repetition doesn't really exist.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically..

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ..

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head..

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter..

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear..

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there..

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it..

When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tap….

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….