I don't like begging money from producers.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.