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You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

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

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.