The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.

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.

Lift up your eyes unto mine air and see the love floating there for I am Paradise and I am everywhere.

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

Thinking about death... clarifies your life!

I don't think I've ever worked on a project [Paper Girls] that is this personal. We draw so much on our memories of growing and we're putting so much of our present day into it as well.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.