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 is a performance and needs the audience.

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

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

Nature has different times.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.