Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.