What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

Resonance is a physical process through which similarities are highlighted.

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them.

Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.