If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

I love good, loud speakers.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

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