I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Music is a form of prayer.
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.
I always want to write erotic music. . . Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe. . . about life.
I am a gardener of infinite time.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.
Music has changed a lot over the past few years so I believe it's necessary to adjust in order to make music the fans want to hear. If I need to release single after single instead of releasing the album, that is what I will do to reacquaint fans with who I am as an artist now.
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate ]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.