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

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Repetition doesn't really exist

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.