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

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

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

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.

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.

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.