To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.

Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.