I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late he's too old to enjoy it.

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.