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I used to love Bach.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.