“With my portable recording system, I didn’t feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space – becoming an integral part of the experience itself.”

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

Well, it’s a lot less dangerous – working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals – than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.

The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

“It’s not where you got it from, it’s where you take it.” To me, that’s just an integral part of why I even bother making music.

Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part – a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection”

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.