After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

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

In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

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