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

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Law is always better than war.