I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

I like revisiting my early work, and people like to hear it. I don't make people suffer through any experimentation or new material. When I go see an artist, I want to hear the songs that drew me to them, so I do the same.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.