My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

My first wife was a theater person.

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.