I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Art is not only about angst.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

Thoughts have the power, To change how you perceive the world around you, To inflict worry, or make peace abound too.

May you find courage in every circumstance.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

If people can understand the Lord's message in Bhagavad-gita, they can become truly happy.

You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!