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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.