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

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

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.

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

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