I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come out in new shapes and forms.

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

I think I still get something from the original broadcaster but I'm certainly not aware of any Netflix van driving to my house and unloading a load of cash into my front yard.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

Tune in, turn on, and drop out.