Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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