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One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.