I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

Repetition doesn't really exist

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.