Nature has different times.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

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

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

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.