"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, what feels right."

"For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before."

"One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better."

"I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders."

"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God."

"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."