If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.