And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

It's often your deepest pain that brings out the best of out of you

It is so beautiful to see a relationship that is nourished and fueled by a love expressed with action.

She ignored his feverish, sweaty skin, his violent trembles, and she kissed him. As he passionately held her against him, the whole world disappeared. It was just him. It had always been him.

If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself.

I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

Pumps on and them little mini skirts is up. I see some good girls, Imma turn em out.

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.