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.

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

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

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."

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

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.