As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.