Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.