I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.

Forgot what you think and remember what you feel.

We don't need to start our dream from the top all we need is to make a first step where we are standing right now and say my journey starts now

One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."- Poppy (quoting Win)

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.