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.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.

In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables.

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.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.