When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.