I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.