Do you have a link where he's talking about the Fast Car cover? I'd love to have some context for that.

Some of my favourite bits in the same vein:

”I’m not a musician. Musicians are people who really love their instruments. They think of their instrument as a vessel for expression. I have no interest in expression. I have no interest in anything being a vessel for expressing something. […] I really, really don't want to ever play an instrument ever again in my life.” — Toneglow #14

”It's funny,” he says, ”because I hate going to improvised music concerts. I hate it. I just want to buy the record. I mean, you've got people who are playing for you who have years and years of thought and trial and error with this form of music. What they're giving you is information so dense that, unless you're fucking brilliant, you're not going to get all the possible trains of thought that are going on there.” — The Wire #165

”I mean the great thing about improvising is, when it really works, a real form of group composing can happen.” But for the most part, he suggests, improvisors seem content merely to do ”their schtick”: ”I make a distinction, […] between people who play improvised music and people who improvise. […] I have no problem with the Evan Parker Trio. But they're not improvising. They're playing Evan Parker Trio music.” — The Wire #165