Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Nature has different times.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.