In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.