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

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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 do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

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

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.