There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music.

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.

Stories carry things. A lesson or moral. Information or a take-home message.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

if ask you who you are ,should count your skills.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

If I saw an ugly bird but she was a celebrity, she wouldn't attract me at all.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.