When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.