I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

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.

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.

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