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.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

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

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

My shows are not narratives.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.