Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.

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.

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

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.

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

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

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.