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

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

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.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

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