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

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

You want a happy family?""I'd love a miserable one where everyone hated each other.""Why?""So we could find redemption in each other's arms.

Keep on smiling, treat people with respect, be cool even if some may not treat you the same. How people treat you doesn't change who you're.

One single letter cures the blank page.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

God not only sees where you are, He sees where you can be.