I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came along, in the '70s, I suddenly thought, hang on a second, this is interesting. These things can become an instrument. So I just became very interested in them, and started, playing with electronics.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.