The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

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.

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

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

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.