The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results