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I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.