The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
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.
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
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.