I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

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

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.