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.

In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."

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

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

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

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