“I don’t like the word “experiment” in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.”

My music lives because of real players.

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

Exterminate all the brutes!

Growing up in Poland, I didn’t have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don’t have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.

There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance.

I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.

[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.