There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

I'm a very conservative personal politically.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.