Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.

I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.