I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.