Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

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