Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

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

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.