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

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

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.