If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
From Brian Eno
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
My shows are not narratives.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
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