Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast.Collection: Computers
Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.Collection: Science
If you look for truth, you have to be courageous.Collection: Truth
I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
I prefer to have the music as pure as possible. I don't want to say, 'Oh yes, this is good. This is not good; I have to do it again.' I don't want to do it again. I want to do it once. It's no good, I do another one.
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.Collection: Dark
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.Collection: Work
Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.Collection: Writing
I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog.Collection: Tools