“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”

“Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.”

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it".”

“The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”

“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”