"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

"With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why."

"I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert."

"I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down."

"Home is pretty utopian."

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."