As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.