I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.