I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

There are no musically untalented people.

If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.

When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.

Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.