I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

I can really only can record at home.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

There are things which money cannot buy

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.

I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.