If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.