I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Music is a form of prayer.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.