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

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."

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

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

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.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

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.