I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.