I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.