Music Has Always Been Transnational.

Practicing Is Not Only Playing Your Instrument, Either By Yourself Or Rehearsing With Others - It Also Includes Imagining Yourself Practicing. Your Brain Forms The Same Neural Connections And Muscle Memory Whether You Are Imagining The Task Or Actually Doing It.

What Came Up At Age 49 Is I Realized That Of All The Things I'm Interested In, The Thing I'm Most Interested In Is Figuring Out What Makes People Tick, Why People Think The Way They Do, Why They Act The Way They Do. And I Realized That Music Is Such A Great Way To Investigate Why People Do What They Do.

My Involvement In The Political Arena Is To Make Sure There's A Place For Culture.

The Thing That I've Always Been Slightly Frustrated With, Was That The Idea Of A Cd Is Kind Of Confined To A Material Possession That You Can Put On A Shelf. And The Idea Of Music, For Me, Is Always About Both The Communication And The Sharing Of Content. And So The Interactive Part Is Missing.

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