Robert Stone

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

It's all about letting the story take over.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.