The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have

When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

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