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

"Music is my religion"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"

"I call architecture frozen music"