The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

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.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.