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

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

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.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.