Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
I believe in singing.
I love good, loud speakers.
Don’t be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
Everybody is entertained to death.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?”
I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
Think inside the work – outside the work.
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.