When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

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.

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

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

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