My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

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.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.