I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

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.

Be happy, not contented.

Belief in oneself is an essential factor for success in life. It helpsyou surmount challenges on your road to success.

Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.