I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

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

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

I take sounds and change them into words.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.