All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

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.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.