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Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

Music is about the performance.

To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.