I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.

Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.

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The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.