When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.

My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.

My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry!

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.

Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.