It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

If the true nature of everything isn't extraordinary, then God would be ordinary.

People ask you questions so you can reveal to them God’s intention

There is only one Human race but many nations with diverse tribes.

Have mountain moving faith in yourself & the universe!

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.