My God, to read without joy is stupid.

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.