If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back.

Every time he left, I shattered apart.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

So much in life came down to timing.

I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.

My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.