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.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.