My music is not worth $2.5bn. And also, I'm not rich.

This new project, 'Excursions,' has been a trip down my own memory lane before 'Minecraft,' when I aspired to create music I could hear…

— C418

All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that…

— C418

I was worried Microsoft would take my music. But ultimately I talked to the lawyers and I still own it.

— C418

When dubstep was big, Ubisoft told the composer for 'Far Cry 3' to make dubstep and to me that was really weird.

— C418

There's this weird game called 'Blueberry Garden.' For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a really terrible…

— C418

Production-wise, I've always stuck with Ableton Live and there's really no reason to switch to something else at this point.

— C418

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

— C418

I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible subsided, and…

— C418

I think everyone that creates has to cope with the fact that people actually don't give you money because they like you, but because…

— C418

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

— C418

I started out being quite an eclectic composer, not quite sure where to fit in. I tried my hand a bit at everything, except…

— C418

With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the ambient music…

— C418

I want to make sound effects for biomes. If you're walking along a river you hear the water, then in the forest you hear…

— C418

Minecraft has a terrible sound engine. Imagine a looping sound file that plays for two seconds and then just starts over.

— C418

The first time I saw 'Minecraft,' people wanted to have 8-bit style video game music. But I wanted to go around that and make…

— C418