For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.