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Music for me is life, I stay in my studio until ten or eleven at night and I record every day. Not for money or for albums - I just compose music.

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I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

The New Age music: "gave the opportunity for untalented people to make very boring music".

On music: "Scientifically, believe it or not, music drives everything, because music equals universe and universe equals music".

The number of interviews I've ever given could be counted on the fingers of my hands.

We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

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