I'm very good with technology I always have been and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them but a source of fun and amusement.

I'm very good with technology I always have been and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them but a source of fun and amusement.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself in a sense in the mid 1960s really when I first heard composers like Terry Riley and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself in a sense in the mid 1960s really when I first heard composers like Terry Riley and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.