I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

I love good, loud speakers.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.