I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.