For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.