"My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument"

"Music is my religion"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"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"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"With foxes we must play the fox"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"