The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.