I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

They were like lightning and rain, existing together but clashing at their very natures.

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

If you can imagine it...it is real

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.