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"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."

"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years."

"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."
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"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."

"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there."

"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition."

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

"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."

"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."

"I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that."
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