"It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of."

"For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before."

"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art."

"Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too."

"The paradox of freedom is that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."