There is a moment, a chip in time / When leaving home is the lesser crime

The traditional rock star role is that you don't say anything. The best way to maintain your conceit is to keep your mouth shut and I'm certainly not prepared to do that. I couldn't.

And the wrong words make you listen / In this criminal world / Remember it's true, loyalty is valuable / But our lives are valuable too.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I'm a painter in sound.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

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