In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables.