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

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

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

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.