In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.