Brian eno

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you...

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child...

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I...

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

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...

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

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