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.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.