I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.

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.

We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.