I no longer limit myself.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

I don't know which was worse the cost of the bridesmaid dress or having to wear it.

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

Players win games, and coaches win players.

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.

Details create success.

And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

A song ain't why people kill cops.