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.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.

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.