It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

People will do odd things if you give them money.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.