If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.