I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.