I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

She looked at him for an age, and he read nothing short of love on her face. It warmed him to the core he'd thought dead, and scared the crap out of him.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

You have to do something bad to do something good.

With voice-over, you have to pretend like youre three, except you can talk and read.

Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.