The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.

I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.

That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding and Wisdom

No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.