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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.