As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

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

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down