I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.