I think one of the things that art offers you is the chance to surrender

The chance to not be in control any longer

In our culture most of the encouragement is to take control

What we like doing is surrendering and that’s the reason we enjoy sex, and drugs, and art, and religion

They’re really all ways of losing me; they’re ways of losing yourself

One of the things I want music to do is to offer people the chance to surrender

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm

The big mistake is to wait for inspiration, it won’t come looking for you

It’s not so much creating something, I think, it’s noticing when something is starting to happen

I like the thrill of being somewhere where I know nobody else has been

The feeling of standing, looking at something that nobody has ever seen before

Some people are more ready to make use of the opportunities that come up than others

Recording was a way of painting with sound
Similarly, distortion is character, basically

Perfection to me is characterlessness