People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.