Here Comes the Flood,

When they had (Nelson) Mandela shows in London the bill was really mixed and I don’t think we lost any viewers as a result. African artists are strong, charismatic and compelling, and I think they...

More and more people are going to download their music, and if it all stays free and there is no control over the payments, then it will be difficult for younger artists to make a...

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...

Still Growing Up: Peter Gabriel Live & Unwrapped.

There was one that we worked on in production called “My Head Sounds Like That.” We did it in a couple of shows where we were performing to smaller audiences without production and it was...

People go on and on about the copyright issue, and that is central to what is going on now. Someone sent me an article from the Register this morning about this person named Fisher who...

It looks different now, but we’ve had lots of discussions about how much to refer to that,

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.

It’s like owning a big playpen and someone else is going to pay for it,

I think another thing is that we don’t really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist’s interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece...

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...

I think FIFA just want (to say), ‘Anything the Olympics can do, we can do better.’ It’s a pretty big audience.

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

From the pain come the dreamFrom the dream come the visionFrom the vision come the peopleFrom the people come the powerFrom this power come the change

We had some good cameramen, and Hamish Hamilton, who did the direction, is very talented.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don’t. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have...

Mass Vehicular Carnage

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn’t matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you’ve taken it out on...

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They’ve been totally preoccupied with...

We are trying to change things and allow artists to be at the front of the food chain and become their own retailers and keep a big part of the margin. They can get paid...

If we can use some of the footage that our partners have created to campaign and we think we should and there needs to be action and there needs to be action now.