"Commitment is a very important act. It allows you to defend noble causes."
"I never like to build an archive of projects. To me it is one of the worst habits in music production."
"I hardly ever have ideas in advance. I create everything from scratch."
"If we ever know what we’re gonna do next, that's the day we should call it quits."
"House music is one good idea that you make last for 7 minutes."
"It doesn’t feel right to plan too much. It takes the fun out of things."
"When creating, a story is being told to the creator - not by the creator."
"Keeping fit is important to me because feeling good is essential. Unless you’re writing the blues."
"In the old days an artist would use her skillset for her entire life. Not so any more."
"Creating music is a regular, methodical searching for wonder."
"I have a lot of ideals. But being creative is not one of them."
"Jazz and Indian classical music superseded Western classical music - intellectually, expressively, technically, and spiritually."
"It's very hard to make the sound of a dental surgery appealing. But it's a challenge we are willing to take."
"Technology is meant to make sounds unique and personal. Sometimes, that means destroying a song."
"An idea comes to you as you wander the earth with a metaphorical butterfly net."
"Sometimes the ideal state and the creative thing are just taking a few deep breaths."
"I have one ritual only: My creative space needs to be clean."
"I worry about the day that technology will understand more than our human minds."
"By making cities quieter, they become more acoustically boring. A little noise is good for us."
"I prefer not to have too much of a concrete idea before starting."
"We have lost the ability to make decisive, strong choices in our art."
"We have a lot of "unfinished" projects. We somehow always want to start fresh."
"All the important plugins exist already. They just aren't 100% yet."
"Life is a spinning vinyl record. Listen - and you'll hear it."
"I don't want my music to engage your intelligence."
"Sometimes it’s only when a song is finished that I understand what it was trying to tell me."
"Fashion exposes the lies of what you speak in your lyrics."
"We're not better than other species inhabiting this place – we may even be worse."
"You don't have to reach a million people. Start local. Start with you."
"Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys taught me about intelligent lyrics."
"It’s about understanding when to remove sound as much as it is to know when to have it in."
Either and Both
"A computer that never crashes, that would have the best impact for me."
Keep the Flow Going
"It felt like we were sitting in a futuristic spaceship!"
"I doubt AI will offer much beyond saving time or small variations."
"I'm still waiting for a technology that enables us to create any sound simply by imagining it."
"I've sometimes thought: Peter, this could be your last project."
"It was like trying to imagine a color outside the visible spectrum."