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.

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

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

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Being an artist is a job for life.