You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'