And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

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

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.