The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

Sometimes language is not enough.

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

I am not scared of making mistakes.