The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
Wisdom
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Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
Wisdom
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
Wisdom
I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
Wisdom
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
Success
I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.
Love
I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
Hope
All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
Success
If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.
Wisdom
If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.
Love
We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
Wisdom
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
Education
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
Wisdom
The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
Wisdom
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
Life
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
Wisdom
I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
Wisdom
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
Wisdom
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
Wisdom
That's what my life is, writing songs.
Life
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
Wisdom
We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.
Wisdom
When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
Wisdom
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
Happiness