"When you see people like Ken Loach, David Miller, Jackie Walker, when you see those people being accused of antisemit…"

"A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existe…"

"Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations."

"If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result."

"The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz."

"Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life.""

"The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions."

"Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours."

"My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing’, which is…"

"Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inappli…"