All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

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.

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.

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.