I Don't Always Have A Five-year Plan.

I Want To Investigate Different Cultures, To See How Their Identities And Values Affect Their Music. It's One Way I Can Get To Know Our World, At Least To A Certain Depth.

Our Cultural Strength Has Always Been Derived From Our Diversity Of Understanding And Experience.

I Think Of A Piece Of Music As Something That Comes Alive When It Is Being Performed, And I Feel That My Role In The Transmission Of Music Is To Be Its Best Advocate At That Moment.

The Role Of The Musician Is To Go From Concept To Full Execution. Put Another Way, It's To Go From Understanding The Content Of Something To Really Learning How To Communicate It And Make Sure It's Well-received And Lives In Somebody Else.

You Go Through Phases. You Have To Reinvent Reasons For Playing, And One Year's Answer Might Not Do For Another.