Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Being an artist is a job for life.

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.