I have always had a tendancy to do things the hard way.
When I write music, I want to be responsible for every individual note and every sound. That means I won't use sampled or pre-programmed loops, algorithmic generators or arpeggiators. It would be cheating. I have no problem with other people doing it, but it wouldn't feel right for me.
I tend to use budget equipment which often imposes annoying limitations. Particularly, it makes it difficult to create the exact sounds that I want. But this often leads to serendipity. When I try to put down that great track idea in my head, its waveform rapidly collapses because the sound I'm hearing is totally different to the one in my mind. But if I go with what I have, the end result is more original anyway.
Most people that I know, when they write tracks on a sequencer, the whole structure is there and often every last detail in terms of controllers, filter sweeps etc, all programmed in. I don't like to do that, it finalises everything too soon. My desire is not to have "finished" tracks so much as to perform live. Therefore I tend to put the bare minimum possible into the sequencer, usually with no pre-defined structure at all, and do everything else on the fly -- mutes, fades, pattern switching, effects, sound editing...
Every recording I make at home is a unique live performance, so there are always "mistakes", but again these can be serendipitous... And of course it means that performing live "out there" is not such a big step -- sure, it feels different with an audience, but the techniques are fundamentally the same as I always use... Both at home and playing out, I've found that the best results happen when I let the music take over, when I can stop thinking about it and just enjoy it.