No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take time, to listen, to work together, to listen to other people, and to use your brain. That's why classical music doesn't work when you throw it at people in a subway platform while they're rushing to work. Classical music is something that needs to be contemplated, you have to be completely present with an active mind that's working. It's not background music.

I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.