I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
From Brian Eno
For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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