We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

Everything around us build us. Books, films, family... everything out there is building our personality!

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

You mean, like a book?

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.