I’m getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
. . . what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful. And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
Like the kind of voter who has been turned off to [Donald] Trump, who would normally vote Republican in an election like this, that`s who we`re talking about, can they get past - even if he comes to a position that`s more agreeable for them, a tone that`s more agreeable, can they get past the last year?
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.