Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.