It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

With the press there is no "off the record.

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

Love someone too much to help them prevent making a mistake.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.