My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

In chaos is where learning happens the most.

The reformation of society and restoration of spirituality should be our goal as Christians

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

I testify that each one of us can feel the Lord's inspiration as we live worthily and strive to serve Him.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.