You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.
You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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.