More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.

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

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.