If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

You are outrageously wonder-full and deserve to be celebrated!