For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Well, I'm pretty sick of rock music, pretty sick of anything in that sphere. The thing is, I love playing it - I find it thrilling to make, but I know that once I make it I'm never going to listen to it again.

I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.

I like being in working situations with people where they're going somewhere I haven't been, I want to go somewhere they haven't been and together we might end up somewhere nobody's been.

I'm a painter in sound.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

[on Rolf Harris] I see Rolf not so much as the missing link in the history of electronic music, more as the weak link. I think, if Rolf is going to be remembered, it won't be for his Stylophone but for 'Sun Arise'. That's one of the great records.

I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call the last illusion. The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on. Astrology is part of the last illusion. The obsession with health is part of the last illusion, the idea that there's that if only we could spend time on it and sit down and stop being unreasonable with each other we'd all find that there was a structure and a solution underlying plan to it all, for most people the short answer to that is god.