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 think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.