A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

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

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

Kill me, and be cursed. You are no king of mine.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.