I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn't designed to do. I have this relationship with my synthesizers. I've had them for so long, and I've never had them serviced, so that now practically all of their functions operate differently from what they were designed to do. They do very interesting things now, but that means nobody else can use them either.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

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

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.