I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.
It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.
I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.
