Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

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

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn't designed to do. I have this relationship with my synthesizers. I've had them for so long, and I've never had them serviced, so that now practically all of their functions operate differently from what they were designed to do. They do very interesting things now, but that means nobody else can use them either.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.