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When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.'

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.

Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.