"The fact of knowing I had no father or mother" : 1948-67
"I want art to be a sacred act, the revelation of forces" : 1967-71)
"To push my language further" : 1971-72
"A need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos" : 1972-74
"Something different is coming, something more precise, more clear" : 1974-76
"A journey into the depths of myself" : 1976-77
"Subtle musics / filling my soul" : 1977-79
"A mystical enchantment" : 1978-79
"Oh beautiful child of the light" : 1979-81
"The passionate love for music that sometimes stops me from composing" : 1981-82
"It's only in thinking about music, and about sound, that I can be happy" : 1982-83
"In Quebec people die easily : 1983.