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

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.