There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.