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I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.

The idea of travelling all over the world singing the same songs sounds like hell. How people like Tina Turner still do it with enthusiasm is beyond me.

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.