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.

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.

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.

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

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?

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.

Life isn't about wasting. its to live!

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.