The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

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

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

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult