My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

Perfection is not very communicative

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.