When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.

My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.

My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!

Rainbow of happiness is the byproduct of your inner sunshine, after the rain of sorrows.

We hope to receive what we long for.

I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.

Tend your own garden: savor the blossoms, trim the weeds.

You shall use all your senses to monitor very carefully all that goes on about you, inside and outside.