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I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

I'm basically a musician.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

I made a big mistake of my life.

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.