If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.