My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.