When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

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.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.