I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.