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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
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"I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there."

"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."

"I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years."

"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."

"Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick."

"I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice."

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender."
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