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

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

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.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.