I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just kept doing it. At the Tape Music Center, I was working from midnight to four in the morning. Because then it was quiet, nobody was there, and I could just do my work. I didn't have to fool around.

Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that now are very well-known and used in many classrooms all over the world, but at the time were outrageous.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take my hands off the keyboard or the buttons or whatever. Don't you understand!" .

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.