I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Think inside the work - outside the work

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

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.