The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.