Peter Gabriel

“A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.”

“Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.”

“I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.”

“Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.”

“It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.”

“I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.”

“There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.”

“Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.”

“As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.”

“I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.”

“If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.”

“You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.”