57 Quotes by Richard D. James

In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

I wanted to do gigs where you've just got mirrors on the stage, and then you light the crowd so they look at the stage and all they can see is themselves. It's just like, "There you go, it's you, you cunts."

It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it.

I'd like to have a dog with me.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.