I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voices - so I do consider it an opera.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?Clara: Because I love you.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.

Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.