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.

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.

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.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

Wherever you are, wherever you go, be sure to spread the light.

I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.