It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.