The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

I love the conversation between film and music.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.