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.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

I think where you play is important.

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.

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.

Sometimes language is not enough.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.