One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

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.

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.

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.

Fulfilling purpose is the major key to being productive in life

The same one who mistreated you will be the one needing you. So, don't hesitate to help. Because that will be the best positive revenge.

No wounded man shall sound me and live.

When the gun shoots, you got to go.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.