Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters t….

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control..

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult.

I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land a….

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like so….

The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the….

I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel t….

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source ….

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future..

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good,….

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them..

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talki….

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me..

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown an….

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future..

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive..

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd….

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emoti….

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's g….

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way..

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre..