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If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.