There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

A : I know what you're going to say, B.B : Yes, I've dreamed about this chat, A.

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

I can't sit on grass without a blanket.