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

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

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.

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.

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."

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