'What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.'

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you wo…

'Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.'

I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abs…

Curiosity: 'Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.'

A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new. [citation needed]

I just want something different. I want to be surprised. I want something that doesn't feel formulaic or beaten to death. (2004)