My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

For some reason the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting any more than it has any reason for ending.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

For whatever reason not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And believe me it is a gift.

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.