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

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

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

I'm always looking to develop my sound and I'm in the studio whenever I have the time to do this. Always looking ahead!

My main goal was to have something for everyone and not just one sound.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.

I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.