When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

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.

Think inside the work - outside the work

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

I love good, loud speakers.

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.