I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to use 'undo' at all. So, there's no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take. There's no sort of drop in, change that little bit". The session broke down in, I'd say, 40 minutes. It was impossible for people to work in that restriction any longer.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.