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

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

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

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.

I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.

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