Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

Smartass Disciple: How the hell do we find the truth ?Master of Stupidity: Just seek it with hope it’ll find you.

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

Count your blessings - not your troubles.

I end up saving the world, just to save you

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.