Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.