Ludovico Einaudi

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.

I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I am better than anyone in the past, but I am saying that I may have evolved some emotions that have connected with the people that are living on the planet today with me.