There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

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

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.

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.

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

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

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