The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.