We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.