I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.

Race is a very sensitive subject.

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.