First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.
Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist.
If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.
I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.
