I think the worst thing is stereotyping.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

It takes time because the habitual response to that is very deep. It goes back to our earliest responses as babies. You have to feel safe, and if a sound is threatening, you're going to be upset. There are those early responses, depending on how and what kind of experiences you had.

I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.

I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn't hear the delay, although sometimes you did.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.