All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

I know how Mesut Ozil takes penalties.

Perhaps one day you'll look in the mirror and realize, the person you see appearing in awareness is actually awareness itself - momentarily appearing as a person.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.