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Little moments of excitement shape the sound of a record. You don't have anything, and then you start to have little parts that give you the energy to move forward because you start to see something.

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

Music is organized sound.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

Music is the silence between the notes.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.