On working alone: "I enjoy working alone. I know myself, and I know what I want... and all this allows me to create my music before my thoughts can i… - Vangelis

The New Age music: "gave the opportunity for untalented people to make very boring music".

On instruments: "Well, to be honest I don’t think it’s necessary to find out how pieces of equipment work. I would prefer to know how music works, or how my body and my mind work. After all, it’s more useful to know how to drive a car than it is to know what makes it go. Of course it’s important to know certain things about a machine, but I don’t need to be able to build my own synthesizer. It strikes me that the people who do build them don’t know how to play them, so l’d rather find out more about playing".

Music for me is life, I stay in my studio until ten or eleven at night and I record every day. Not for money or for albums - I just compose music.