Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that then I want out.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed I agree with you.

Choreography is mentally draining but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English Spanish Yiddish Swahili any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development who love good music good books good pictures good plays good company good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world it is integral to harmony and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

The cardinal sin in sports what could really wreck it is not cheating to win which has gone on forever but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed they're no different from movies they're scripted.

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.