I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their work. They don't know what's coming next, they just wait for the message, for orders to come and then off they go on their next project.

In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music.

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

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.