 As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to 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. |
| The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. |
| My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. |
| People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words. |
| 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. |
| It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene. |
| 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 enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich. |
| I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. |
| I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. |
| The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences. |
| A part of me has become immortal, out of my control. |
| If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. |
| Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. |
| I take sounds and change them into words. |
| I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. |
| If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. |
| Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. |
| For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. |
