If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.