One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.