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

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.