Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.