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

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

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but the ones who took very strong positions. Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don't agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it - or chuck it away if they don't want it.