It's the balance between wanting the power of electronics and having something real happening - if you want people to engage in what you're doing, I think that's important. I want to have fun with people, but that's hard to do with a laptop.

I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.