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I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

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

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.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.