Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents.

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.

Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.