Taking your time with music is real important to me.
When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.
I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.
A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
I don't listen to music that I won't like in a month.
I buy some black metal records kind of blindly, and I end up really liking maybe 30% of them. There's a lot of duds, for me at least, in black metal. I have kind of picky tastes about it.
I'm a huge fan of not overemphasising with music.
The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
I have huge respect for the musical aptitude and intellect of listeners in India. They appreciate genuine, quality music.
I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.
Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.
Many times you make music and someone decides to try and pick the best of everything. But if you wait, you sometimes fall out of love, or a song doesn't speak to you anymore, so you lose the moment.
