I don't need sound to talk to me.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.

I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.