An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.
The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. (on Elgar)
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.
I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.
Why talk when you can paint?
I just have a lot off different influences.
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
Buildings are forms of performances.
I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.
Poets are born, not paid.
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
I love language, and I love the failure of language.
I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.
