Resonance is a physical process through which similarities are highlighted.

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

The tyrant has power to play as long as he is the master in his surroundings.

I gaze forward without fear.

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

It is defeat which educates us.