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

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.

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

When they were partially up the stairs and mostly out of earshot, Sin looked at Boyd again. 'Don't get killed or I'll be very annoyed with you.

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

I am where a great many voters are, which is that I am listening and watching and coming to a decision.