What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.

...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

I don't think I'm a weirdo in a bad way. There's just a lot going on in my head.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

i suppose doing things you hate is the price you pay to avoid loneliness.

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.