There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

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.

You can be very wild and still be very wise