I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

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

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.

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.