Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

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.

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.

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

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.