The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.