The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

I take sounds and change them into words.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.