In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

Think inside the work - outside the work

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

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

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.