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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.