It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

Quite a metaphor. The person in the most pain wins. Does that mean I get a Blue Ribbon?

My breath catches in my throat as a chill makes me shiver, leaving gooseflesh in its wake. My eyes latch on to his, pleading with him to kiss me.

Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

Anger doesn't win games.

I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.