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

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.

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."

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.

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.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.