With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.