Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.