People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

For me, music and life are all about style.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.