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

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.