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.'

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

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

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.