The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
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.
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.