"Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize."

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

"Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh."

"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

"When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them."

"All art is quite useless."

"In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here."