"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."

"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."

"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."

"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."

"I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin."