I spend a lot of time on my music.
The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. ...
I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.
I don't even really like rap music.
There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.
You have to be who you are when you do music.
I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.
There's so much music going on in New Orleans.
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
The public doesn't want new music.
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.
