“I limit choices.”

In modern recording one of the biggest problems is that you’re in a world of endless possibilities.

So I try to close down possibilities early on.

I limit choices.

I confine people to a small area of manoeuvre.

There’s a reason that guitar players invariably produce more interesting music than synthesizer players: you can go through the options on a guitar in about a minute, after that you have to start making aesthetic and stylistic decisions.

This computer can contain a thousand synths, each with a thousand sounds.

I try to provide constraints for people.

—Brian Eno