“The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Mus...” — John Tavener Quote

“The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.”

“I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.”

“Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.”

“I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.”

“My ego would be fed tremendously when I'd go on a set and get in a car and tear it to pieces. I'd get out and everyone on the set would applaud.”

“I applaud women who speak out and are loud and brave and bold about the disgusting things that they've been dealt.”