I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

I live locally, I eat regionally but I think internationally.

People fall short. Your finger-pointing hurts you more than it does them. Less judgement. More compassion

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

Become a vessel for the divine.

If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.