You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.

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

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

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

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.

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

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?