"When I create music I am influenced by things happening throughout the world and the universe. The ideas for musical entities are transmitted by a supremely harmonious power. Nearly lost in translation from brain to tongue, music can manifest a modest representation of the universal power and beauty."

"For me, composing is like paleontology. I search until I find something that sparks my curiosity, keep digging, build upon what I have. Whether it’s a vertebrae, a skull, a femur, or whatever; it all has to fit together as a part of the same entity, a specimen of art. In this sense, I would not consider myself the composer of such a piece, but that it has been pre-written."