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.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

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

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.