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.'

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn't expected or predicted by what I supplied. Once phase two begins everything is okay, because then the work starts to dictate its own terms. It starts to get an identity which demands certain future moves. But during the first phase you often find that you come to a full stop.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.