I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.

In terms of picking album titles or picking track titles, I think very carefully on all of that because that is the entrance point.

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.

If you create good work, people should be interested.

I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.

I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!

You can regain your inner peace with a daily prayer.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.