Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

I'm never happy with anything.

It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Failure is sometimes inevitable, but failing to get back up is what turns a lot of people into failures.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Most people are idiots

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.