I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
Every collaboration helps you grow.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
I often work by avoidance.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
Repetition doesn't really exist
One often makes music to supplement one's world.
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.
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.
I believe in singing.
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
