When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
Perfection is not very communicative
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.
My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.