It's the irrational things that interest me.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.