It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.