I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.