I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide.

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.