There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

Losing your job gives you the material from which life is made

I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on … the world of beauty around us.

She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.