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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.