I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

I'm never happy with anything.

It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

Time becomes meaningless without memory and we humans have a unique consciousness that allows us to live in the past or the future, which is actually more of a curse than a useful superpower.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.