More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now..

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be n….

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences..

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing..

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else..

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender..

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve..

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work..

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems..

I love good, loud speakers..

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should ….

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of ….

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence..

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better..

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually..

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - a….

In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show ….

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about..

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged..

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can..

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that pro….