I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

Are you speaking your mind or expressing your feelings?

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!

I think my English is bad.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.