Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.