Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

What would New York be without slavery?

Learn not to be too ambitious; not to expect if you have a 9-to-5 job and three kids, that you're likely to get buddhahood in one lifetime.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

If anybody is gonna kill my creation, I'm gonna do it! ME... and the nWo.

Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.