Law is always better than war.

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

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

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.

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

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.