You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.