Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

What was the point of a sacrifice if it wasn't meant for the ones you loved?

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.