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We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.