Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

I want to go my own way - to build my own career. To be known as Emre Can.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment I took a very difficult decision to have a career which requires so much dedication and focus, just like raising children.