I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

• I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
• At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
• The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
• 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.
• It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
• I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
• I take sounds and change them into words.
• The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
• Everybody is entertained to death.
• 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.