I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

The weird people are the best ones! All of my friends are weird.

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.