My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.
Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?
Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.
I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.
