In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.