-“I can’t help but feel like the U.S. is not a country, but an experiment.”

-“I often feel like an antique, historically important, but painfully aware of my waning relevance.”

-“It’s that generation of musicians that has become so empty; relying on elite audiences, supported beliefs, and a hunger for constant fulfillment and consistent indulgence to bail them out of questioning the value of their own existence.”

-“Music without ideas is unthinkable, and people who are not willing to use their brains to understand music, which cannot be fully grasped at first hearing are simply lazy-minded. Every work of art to be understood has to be thought about…otherwise it has no inherent life.”

-“True artists attain beauty without willing for it, for he is only striving after truthfulness, which is always beautiful, with or without recognition.”