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.

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.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

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