When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy
There's something strange about a laptop, how you can make the tiniest gesture and make the biggest sound. I don't feel I've resolved working a sense of performance into a piece yet.
I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
It's the balance between wanting the power of electronics and having something real happening - if you want people to engage in what you're doing, I think that's important. I want to have fun with people, but that's hard to do with a laptop.
I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.
Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.
The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.