It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

I'm never happy with anything.

It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..."Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!

Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

I really enjoy the football season.

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.