I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.