It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

When I grew up what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself in a sense in the mid 1960s really when I first heard composers like Terry Riley and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Yeah I've been interested in music since I was a teenager always writing songs.

As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence.

When I was a teenager I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.