To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

Marriage is a shared sacred life.

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

Empty yourself to fill the void with love.

A strong team consists of people who know how to follow a leader.

I believe my using the talent He's given me is His will for my life. Why else would He have bothered giving it to me?

God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.