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.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

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

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

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