One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

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

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

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 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 constrained by what your muscles can do.

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, what feels right.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

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.

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

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

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

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I love good, loud speakers.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

My shows are not narratives.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

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 miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.