Music is a form of prayer.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.

This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.

All the best things in life are free: love, smiles, friends, family, pets & companions, thoughts, sunsets & sunrises and especially rainbows.

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.