I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

Our world is structured in such a way that you will be ignorant and unaware of the fact that your life is disappearing gradually and that you are left only with very little life and time.

The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it.

CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.

This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.