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.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.