I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.

One of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.

Sometimes language is not enough.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like sound. Obviously, that has its own place, and it's a beautiful way of doing it. But I don't think I am the first to point out that in Africa, the more buzzing the sound is, the more it indicates the other world - the spirit world.