“I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.”

“A great idea invariably creates as many problems as it solves: that is a sign of its greatness.”

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

“At a very early stage I realised that it's a real problem to perform electronic music on stage because electronic instruments are not particularly convincing on a visual point of view: somebody behind his computer, it's not particularly visual. So I was inspired by the opera. And what was the opera in the 19th century? It was the idea for a musician to join and to work, to collaborate with a stage director, with carpenters, painters, people doing decors, graphic artists to have a visual prolongation, a visual correspondence to their work. That's what I tried to do with the tools of my generation: electronics and video and lights and all that.”

“I believe we can turn around our country’s current, wrong-headed course, if we start basing our actions on ideas, shared values, and a commitment to solve problems without regard for party.”

“I think, as a society, though, I think more and more people are starting to question this idea that the government can do anything, [that] it has some sort of magical power to solve all of the problems; in fact, I think more and more people are coming to the conclusion that government is the problem.”

“I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.”

“The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.”

“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems”