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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

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If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes...

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

My shows are not narratives.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only...

I love good, loud speakers.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

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