I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.

I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.