Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.

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.

I wish I were a rock, ' he said, and he became a rock.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.