I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.

All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

I came to acting in a very circuitous way.