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.

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

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

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'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.

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.