The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called ‘Gnan’ (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

Barack Obama believes he has the same kind of connection to the American people that Trump has.

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.