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.

I think we're all pretty odd.

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

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.