That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.