I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

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.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

This war on terror is bogus.

Losers react. Winners anticipate.