Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

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

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.