If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

If you think you fit into a situation, it's worth trying.

These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.

The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.