Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

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.

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

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

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.