Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.