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.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

I take sounds and change them into words.

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.