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

I think we're all pretty odd.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

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

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.

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.