Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

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.