People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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

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.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

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