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Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.