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

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.