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.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Music has always been transnational.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

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.

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