I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

The professionals must set a good example.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.