What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

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.

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.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.