It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

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 put on, which would play for a while and finish.

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.

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 interested me.