I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

I think it's better to just say nothing at all than to just send two words.

I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music.

With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.