I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.