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.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

I take sounds and change them into words.