Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.