I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other.

It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and singing.

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].