Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the mu….

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense..

Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to someth….

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting..

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles..

When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and ….

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest..

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning..

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul..

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, bu….

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the….

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it..

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are..

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process..

Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're….

In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. T….

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans ….

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinkin….

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature ….

I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also….

In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will rec….