Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.