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.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.