When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.