Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.