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

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.