Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Music is a form of prayer.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

A smile is the most beautiful dance of a woman's heart.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level.

When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.