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

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

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

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

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

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