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.

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another era.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.

It's very interesting to see how the music is used, as sometimes you have composed something with a very different intention, and then suddenly you see it connected to something different. For example, it was incredibly strong and beautiful the first time I saw 'This Is England' by Shane Meadows.

After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.

Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.

I love to explore melody.

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.

Doing the Five Tibetan Rites exercises every day - it makes me feel at home wherever I am.

The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

I like to keep changing because discovery is always interesting.