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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.