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.

Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.

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.

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

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

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.