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.

I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. "Okay, this is what they're up to now; this is what they're doing; who's working with them?

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

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.