"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

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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."

Freedom

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

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."

Trying

"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."

Music

"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."

Thought

"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."

Being

"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."

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

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"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."

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