Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

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.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.