I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, "OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?"

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.