Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.

I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician.

Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring.

With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.

We cry to God for blessings but we do not really want him. He has to teach us that he is the greatest blessing of all.

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

A friend of Nicole Ritchie told the New York Post that Nicole is definitely pregnant.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.