"I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'"

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."

"I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."

"There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking."

"I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time."

"Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?"

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"The greatest journey starts when the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."