“I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by ...” — Jools Holland Quote

“I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.”

“Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.”

“Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.”

“I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.”

“Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.”

“Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”