"I employ a vocabulary from art and design to describe melody and rhythm..."

"Representing a place through sound is my response to our image-saturated media."

"I think sound is still undervalued as a means to measure environmental health, regional identity, and personal narrat…"

"[Regarding field recordings] I try not to edit or assign value to what I find...What I'm trying to do is get enough m…"

"If we think about places sonically, I’d say the Midwest [of America] is more of a whisper than a shout... I suppose I…"

"The best art provides someone with something that they didn't know they needed, that touches them in a way they may n…"

"I also want to encourage others to work in this field [of recording sounds] without having to spend a lot of money on…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable."

"I think style chooses you... if I could choose, I would write like Jane Austen and I would draw like Rembrandt."