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 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.

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.

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

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.

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

Relax, refresh and revive your soul, spirit and body.

Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God’s thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.