In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter..

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear..

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there..

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it..

When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and p….

Most game music is based on loops effectively..

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a ….

I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. "Okay, this is what they're up to….

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersi….

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there..

Being an artist is a job for life..

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one..

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that i….

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school..

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well..

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never….

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time..

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying..

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group sing….

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it..

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy..