I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.