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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

There are notes between notes, you know.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.